GLOBAL WARNING

To alien eyes, Earth has been a desirable piece of real estate ever since a strange cylinder hit Horsell Common in 1898’s The War Of The Worlds. It was only the first strike among many, as science fiction prepared to fight a rearguard action against extraterrestrial aggression – a fight that’s still ongoing, over a century later. Apple’s Invasion may offer a new take on the genre but, creatively at least, the red weed of HG Wells’s world conquerors is embedded deep in its soil.

“Someone brought to me the notion of doing a limited series based on ,” says Simon Kinberg, co-creator of the 10-part tale. “It’s a book I’ve always loved but the one thing that isn’t in the book – and wasn’t in the Spielberg adaptation – was a sense of the promises that.